March 9, 2026 • 6 mins
Richard Whyte of Waitane YFC has a catch up in this weeks' Young Farmers chat.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Foreigner is the music that song there? I want to
know what lovers a power ballad from back in the day.
As we chat with our young farmers every Tuesday, Richard
White of bay Tani Young Farmers joins us this afternoon. Richard,
good afternoon, hell says.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Not made yourself Andy?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Pretty good? That song there, I asked you before if
you do of it? Do you know of it now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I do now that I've heard it yet.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
How's everything on the farm out there? You're based out
of chatting, aren't you? Yeah? We are, yeh yeah getting
how's the season been?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh yeah, it's been being up and down really there's been. Uh,
you know, we're looking pretty dry there around Christmas time,
but that's yeah. We've got the right rain at the
right time and everything's looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
To be fair well. So mother nature's providing for you
in autumn.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It is yep, yep. I could just deal with a
bit more sign and a bit more wanted to get
the crops dry and all that sort of stuff. They'd
be quite handy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Are you having to dry match crop? Ah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, we've had to dry weab it. Yeah, it hadn't
been too too bad. We're just sort of blending a
weebit of stuff. It's sort of been fifteen percent, which
sort of blending it with twelve percent stuff to try
and even how to weave it too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Right, Hey, young farmers at wait Tana, you're involved here.
It's been a pretty busy couple of months. We had
the regionals there. Well that's probably about a month ago now,
which is in the past, but that was a pretty
cool occasion. Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, the club's been very busy lately.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Last month was a very busy month for us YEP
with regionals and then also helping with doing a lot
of fundraising for the field Days and all that sort
of stuff like helping set up and pack down Sony
Creek and doing stuff with the Field Day's committee, and
also cable pulling at the end of the day as
well on the Friday, which was also a pretty big job.
(01:50):
But yeah, we've got plenty of people there and got
in and got it done.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So the field Days at South though, did you mean
as yet have a bit of a look around. Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, I went down on the Friday and had a
lot around and yes, been a weave bit of money
and bought a couple of things here and there that
we needed and saw the things that looked good, and yeah,
everything was looking real good.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Actually, yeah, any major purchases for the farm were just
we for a jacket and it was about it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ah. Oh, we brought a couple of chainsaws and priced
up a spreader and a couple other bits and bobs
here and there, and just yeah, it had a good
look around.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Really well, it sounds like the gorses out of the
pockets and you were.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Buying yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yet someone else has been going on with the club.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh, it's been the way it happened. Now sort of
slowed down a weave it with everyone being busy with
at this time of the year. But we're sort of
planning a Stewart Island trip at the moment, going to
go over to Stuart Island for three days and do
a bit of fishing, so that'll be cool. Other than that, yeah,
just trying to find a bit of fundraising, be doing
that and then yeah, we just had a pretty busy
month last month, so we're just going to take it
(02:50):
easy this month and do a bit of planning and
try and get a weave of fundraising under our belt.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Have you been down there before.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, the club went on a trip down there in
twenty twenty two and we had a bloody awesome time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Actually, yeah, I quite believe that knowing you lost. Hey,
that's one thing about why Toney, you guys are always
out and about being proactive. It's almost twelve months since
you went to uz he you're going down to Stuart Island.
So yeah, if you play to you guys, you're doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, Well, you know, you've got to keep people interested
and going out and doing things. You know, for the
amount of work that the people in the club put in,
you know, no, we've we've got to reward them and
you know, no better thing than going on trip together
and doing things, going out fishing and all.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That sort of stuff. So yeah, So fundraising wise for
these trips, what do you do? You've had the field
days obviously, likes of wood splitting or anything. What have
you got up in the pipeline.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We haven't got anything sort of lined up for this one.
We had a couple of fundraisers lined up that they
fell through that we haven't got anything lined up for
this one yet. We're just trying to find a way
bit of fundraising now to do for this Stuart Island trip.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So yeah, well there's your opportunity. What kind of fundraising
are you after?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Anything?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Right? Anything required for fundraising with Taddy Young Farmers there
your team.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, yep, we'll do Farwood and well we had
a turnip pulling thing lined up but that fell through
because the seed had already dropped. But yeah, no, we'll
do anything that we can get a hands on.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Really, when do you guys hold your meetings?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So we've got a meeting on next Monday on the
sixteenth at the Town and Country Club.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Nice, you guys get out in the bount for your
meetings as well, You're just not in the one place.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, no, we lot to ship around. You get a
good different crowd from everywhere so that people are from
different places around the place can come and join our meetings.
So you know, we've got a few members down sort
of Eden Dolls ways. It's bit harder for them to
drive allway to Gore other sides, so we go down
to b Ton sometimes and Thomas Green as well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So yeah, how many members would you have turning out
to meetings so to day? To suppose because he's quite
a few of you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, we get pretty good turn up anywhere between twenty
to thirty sort of members, depending on how busy, how
busy the year is, and all that sort of stuff,
and what time of the year it is.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
As far as tail Twisters for the next meeting, can
you give us a taste of what to expect.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh, there'll be just a lot of talk about this
trip coming up, really.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Tail Twists. Name in Shane someone he's coughed up.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh, I suppose you'll just have to come along to
the meeting and find out and listen to the who's
going to get the wooden spone?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I suppose that is a great answer. But the wooden spoon?
What is the wooden spoon?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So the wooden spoons what you get? If so you
get nominated, we'd go around the club and whoever's had
a bugger up for the month they get take the
wooden spoone home. It's just a piece of wood with
a spoon on it, a golden silver spoon on it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So that's what a wooden spoon generally is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, just a bit of a
shame really that when you get it, I've had it.
Funny enough finds of South it's pretty good laugh to
hear what people have been up to. So yeah, right, So.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The social channels are best way to get in touch, Richard,
I'd say.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Facebook, get on Facebook and look us up on Facebook.
We're on TikTok as well and Instagram and all that
sort of stuff. So you just anything like that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, TikTok you little hipsters. Good on your Richard, Thanks
for the chat. All the best in the harvest of
this week.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That laugh out loud with ag proud because life on
the land can be a laughing matter. Brought to us
by sheer Well Data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Little Red riding Hood was found in a critical condition.
Paramedics have stabilized a condition, but say she's not out
of the woods just yet. Before we wrap up as well,
I'd like to wish happy birthday to an absolute legend
of a man, Jeff Heaps. Have a good one, mate,
love your work. We'll leave it there for the afternoon.
(06:50):
Now you've been listening to the muster thanks to Peters
Genetics podcasts going up shortly, Enjoy the afternoon.
Foreigner is the music that song there? I want to
know what lovers a power ballad from back in the day.
As we chat with our young farmers every Tuesday, Richard
White of bay Tani Young Farmers joins us this afternoon. Richard,
good afternoon, hell says.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Not made yourself Andy?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Pretty good? That song there, I asked you before if
you do of it? Do you know of it now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I do now that I've heard it yet.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
How's everything on the farm out there? You're based out
of chatting, aren't you? Yeah? We are, yeh yeah getting
how's the season been?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh yeah, it's been being up and down really there's been. Uh,
you know, we're looking pretty dry there around Christmas time,
but that's yeah. We've got the right rain at the
right time and everything's looking pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
To be fair well. So mother nature's providing for you
in autumn.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It is yep, yep. I could just deal with a
bit more sign and a bit more wanted to get
the crops dry and all that sort of stuff. They'd
be quite handy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Are you having to dry match crop? Ah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, we've had to dry weab it. Yeah, it hadn't
been too too bad. We're just sort of blending a
weebit of stuff. It's sort of been fifteen percent, which
sort of blending it with twelve percent stuff to try
and even how to weave it too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Right, Hey, young farmers at wait Tana, you're involved here.
It's been a pretty busy couple of months. We had
the regionals there. Well that's probably about a month ago now,
which is in the past, but that was a pretty
cool occasion. Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, the club's been very busy lately.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Last month was a very busy month for us YEP
with regionals and then also helping with doing a lot
of fundraising for the field Days and all that sort
of stuff like helping set up and pack down Sony
Creek and doing stuff with the Field Day's committee, and
also cable pulling at the end of the day as
well on the Friday, which was also a pretty big job.
(01:50):
But yeah, we've got plenty of people there and got
in and got it done.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So the field Days at South though, did you mean
as yet have a bit of a look around. Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, I went down on the Friday and had a
lot around and yes, been a weave bit of money
and bought a couple of things here and there that
we needed and saw the things that looked good, and yeah,
everything was looking real good.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Actually, yeah, any major purchases for the farm were just
we for a jacket and it was about it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ah. Oh, we brought a couple of chainsaws and priced
up a spreader and a couple other bits and bobs
here and there, and just yeah, it had a good
look around.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Really well, it sounds like the gorses out of the
pockets and you were.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Buying yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yet someone else has been going on with the club.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh, it's been the way it happened. Now sort of
slowed down a weave it with everyone being busy with
at this time of the year. But we're sort of
planning a Stewart Island trip at the moment, going to
go over to Stuart Island for three days and do
a bit of fishing, so that'll be cool. Other than that, yeah,
just trying to find a bit of fundraising, be doing
that and then yeah, we just had a pretty busy
month last month, so we're just going to take it
(02:50):
easy this month and do a bit of planning and
try and get a weave of fundraising under our belt.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Have you been down there before.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, the club went on a trip down there in
twenty twenty two and we had a bloody awesome time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Actually, yeah, I quite believe that knowing you lost. Hey,
that's one thing about why Toney, you guys are always
out and about being proactive. It's almost twelve months since
you went to uz he you're going down to Stuart Island.
So yeah, if you play to you guys, you're doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, Well, you know, you've got to keep people interested
and going out and doing things. You know, for the
amount of work that the people in the club put in,
you know, no, we've we've got to reward them and
you know, no better thing than going on trip together
and doing things, going out fishing and all.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That sort of stuff. So yeah, So fundraising wise for
these trips, what do you do? You've had the field
days obviously, likes of wood splitting or anything. What have
you got up in the pipeline.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We haven't got anything sort of lined up for this one.
We had a couple of fundraisers lined up that they
fell through that we haven't got anything lined up for
this one yet. We're just trying to find a way
bit of fundraising now to do for this Stuart Island trip.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So yeah, well there's your opportunity. What kind of fundraising
are you after?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Anything?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Right? Anything required for fundraising with Taddy Young Farmers there
your team.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, yep, we'll do Farwood and well we had
a turnip pulling thing lined up but that fell through
because the seed had already dropped. But yeah, no, we'll
do anything that we can get a hands on.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Really, when do you guys hold your meetings?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So we've got a meeting on next Monday on the
sixteenth at the Town and Country Club.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Nice, you guys get out in the bount for your
meetings as well, You're just not in the one place.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, no, we lot to ship around. You get a
good different crowd from everywhere so that people are from
different places around the place can come and join our meetings.
So you know, we've got a few members down sort
of Eden Dolls ways. It's bit harder for them to
drive allway to Gore other sides, so we go down
to b Ton sometimes and Thomas Green as well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So yeah, how many members would you have turning out
to meetings so to day? To suppose because he's quite
a few of you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, we get pretty good turn up anywhere between twenty
to thirty sort of members, depending on how busy, how
busy the year is, and all that sort of stuff,
and what time of the year it is.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
As far as tail Twisters for the next meeting, can
you give us a taste of what to expect.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh, there'll be just a lot of talk about this
trip coming up, really.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Tail Twists. Name in Shane someone he's coughed up.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh, I suppose you'll just have to come along to
the meeting and find out and listen to the who's
going to get the wooden spone?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I suppose that is a great answer. But the wooden spoon?
What is the wooden spoon?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So the wooden spoons what you get? If so you
get nominated, we'd go around the club and whoever's had
a bugger up for the month they get take the
wooden spoone home. It's just a piece of wood with
a spoon on it, a golden silver spoon on it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So that's what a wooden spoon generally is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, just a bit of a
shame really that when you get it, I've had it.
Funny enough finds of South it's pretty good laugh to
hear what people have been up to. So yeah, right, So.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The social channels are best way to get in touch, Richard,
I'd say.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Facebook, get on Facebook and look us up on Facebook.
We're on TikTok as well and Instagram and all that
sort of stuff. So you just anything like that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, TikTok you little hipsters. Good on your Richard, Thanks
for the chat. All the best in the harvest of
this week.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That laugh out loud with ag proud because life on
the land can be a laughing matter. Brought to us
by sheer Well Data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Little Red riding Hood was found in a critical condition.
Paramedics have stabilized a condition, but say she's not out
of the woods just yet. Before we wrap up as well,
I'd like to wish happy birthday to an absolute legend
of a man, Jeff Heaps. Have a good one, mate,
love your work. We'll leave it there for the afternoon.
(06:50):
Now you've been listening to the muster thanks to Peters
Genetics podcasts going up shortly, Enjoy the afternoon.
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